The Archive · 1939

Japanese to Control Food Prices

For the purpose of curbing the constant upward trend of commodity prices which has been marked since the middle of October, the Japanese Corporation' wilt ort a Commodity Sales Guild benefit of the 60,000 Japanese resi dents here, the "Shanghai Mainichi" reported yesterday.

'The projected guild will purchase daily necessities, especially groceries, direct from producers and manufacturers, dispensing with middlemen, and sell' them at prices near cost, 'This was expected to check profiteering. The decision to form the guild was put into effect afier the commodity question was studied by Mr. Masusaburo Amano, President of the residents' corporation, and other Japanese leaders, Woman Murdered and

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